In recent years, art has become increasingly
political, again. The societies around the globe
and even in Europe and the United States seem to
wake up from the rigidity of the paralysing
West-East conflict, and its aftermath, when there
seemed to be no alternative to economic
liberalism. Some artists take amazing risks to do
public actions, others try to subvert written or
unwritten laws in more subtle ways, however, in
many ways, the society has become the material
again for artists to experiment with.
Furthermore, the cheeky and anarchist stance many
artists have developed may have an influence on
how the freedom to speech, which seems to be in
jeopardy again, will be interpreted and used in
the future.

Brandstifter DE Asphaltbibliotheque Berlin 2011
Exhibition with lost and found sheets of paper

The installation "Asphaltbibliotheque Berlin
2011" at Directors Lounge works together with the
screening of Brandstifter's documentation of his
long term concept "Ein kleines Stück Papier" for
Urban Art Research, displaying the gathered
remains from Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg,
Lichtenberg, Mitte and Neukölln from the
"lost&found art research tour Hannover-Berlin"
Easter 2011 as a brief sample of his huge
collection that he archives from public space
since 1998.

The Poetry of Papers "The Asphaltbibliotheque
shows how poetic and many-layered artistic
reordering can make an idea that is simple in
itself. Brandstifter understands how to charge
the profane with the poetic, and in so doing to
provide playfully anarchic inspiration to
conceive the everyday world as a freely formable
work of art." (Martin Büsser, art critic, author,
publisher, Testcard/Ventil Verlag)

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